Morgan Freeman Quotes

Oh my God - this is scary and sad all at the same time. I literally dream about buying my own groceries. Swear to God. Because it is something that is real and normal.

Pressure is the single mom who is trying to scuffle and pay her rent. We get paid a lot of money to play a game. Don't get me wrong: there are challenges. But to call it pressure is almost an insult to regular people.

I grew up in a household where a missed day of work meant bills were not paid, I've lived through the stress that confronts many South Carolina families.

The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment. He wasn't covetous, he wasn't envious. But without money he was hardly a man.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

I don't want to give this impression that I grew up in Liverpool in a cardboard box in abject poverty, but that didn't mean there weren't anxieties in my childhood about money.

A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

Money is a never-ending problem.

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be.

I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid that you can't pay a doctor's bill. Or to have to make the choice between buying a band uniform for a seventh-grader and making the insurance payment on time. That will never leave me. It was how I lived until I was well into my adult years.

My parents didn't have any money.

Everyone is trying to make ends meet, and even if you aren't, no one wants to get ripped off.

Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect.

Unemployment, low wages, and poverty discourage family formation and erode family stability, making it less likely that individuals will marry in the first place and more likely that their marriages will dissolve.

We were under a lot of financial pressure when I was growing up.

While growing up, I saw how finances can play havoc in anybody's life. While we were comfortable, money didn't come easy.

My family didn't have lots of money or anything.

My parents worked hard, sometimes two jobs, to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table.